The average person blinks 12 times per minute-about 10,000 blinks a day.

Starfish have an eye at the end of each leg.

Your eye has the most muscles in the human body.

11 out of every 1,000 people in the U.S. are born with different colored eyes. A condition called heterochromia.

Your eyes will bring you 24 million images in your life.

The area between your eyebrow is called the glabella. ("glah bell uh")

Only 1/6 of your whole eyeball is visible.

Each of your eyelashes will last approximately five months.

Bees have five eyes.

You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.

Goldfish cannot close their eyes as they do not have any eyelids.

A falcon can see 20 times better than a human.

In the US every 14 minutes someone loses,breaks or sits on a pair of sunglasses.

Singer Elton John is rumored to have a sun glass collection that is 1,000 strong.

Edwin H. Land invented Polaroid Sunglass lenses in 1936.

Albert Einstein's eyes remain in a safe box in NYC.

Some of the smallest blood vessels in your body can be seen just by looking into your eyes? That is why it is so important that people with Diabetes, a disease that affects your blood vessels, have an ocular examination each year.

Your eyes can get sunburned. Protect them from harmful UV rays by wearing sunglasses.